Sunday, August 17, 2008

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

Judy, your mantra that usually anything with pink on the cover is to be taken lightly or put back is put to rest with this wee tome.

I have not laughed as openly and with such abandon in a LOOoooonnnng time as I have with this book - it's simply hilarious. - about just growing up & growing older and growing into who we might not have always wanted to be but with who we are pretty darned happy to be. When I grow up, I want to write like Nora Ephron and Heather Armstrong all rolled into one.

Again, I have to lend and would heartily recommend taking me up on this one.

We should bring all our recent reads to a group dinner sometime to trade!

~ Robin

2 comments:

StrawBoss said...

What is it about pink these days? Have you walked into a girls clothing dept or toy section. It's all pink! I've thought about this alot and I think we (pre-Title 9)tried so hard not to be "girly" that pink became a 4-letter word. I would not have been caught dead in pink.
I discussed this with my SIL just now and she agrees (she has 2 sm granddaughters so is familiar with the pink phenom). Her words "Pink is just not a color we would wear, ever."

Anonymous said...

Huh. I used to feel that way.
And I felt that way when buying baby clothes.

But that feeling totally dissipated after Sally was born. And I don't know exactly how or why, but I started to like wearing pink myself as part of being a girls' mommy. (one of my favorite things to see is when a mommy has a new pretty gown/robe to wear after baby's birth--completely unnecessary but such a nice treat!)

I still look for other colors when buying them clothes..but Gracie is pretty set in her ways. And if it's pink, it's ok. And if it's not pink, it's not ok.

I guess I like the safety of it.